A Place to Plant Seeds
Cotard’s Syndrome - délire des négations - any one of a series of delusions ranging from the fixed and unshakable belief that one has lost organs, blood, or body parts to believing that one has lost one’s soul or is dead. In its most profound form, the delusion takes the form of a professed belief that one does not exist.
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[GoFundMe donations as pledges to a religious icon]
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“Terrence Malick Syndrome—a yearning to juxtapose the quotidian and the cosmic in search of some ersatz significance.” — Richard Schickel
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“I think the reason that people aren’t interested in satire anymore is because they’re out of touch with what’s really happening. What’s happening is so traumatic that they’re living in it and acting in it, but it’ll be years before they can look back at it and realize what happened. And there’s nothing more insightful about culture than satire. If you don’t know what’s going on, you can’t write satire. But nobody knows what’s going on anymore. It’s too overwhelming.” — Bruce Benderson interviewed by Hedi El Kholti in issue 5 of The Whitney Review of New Writing.
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“How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed?” — Johanna Hedva, Sick Woman Theory
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“Why should crackle resonate now? The first thing we can say is that crackle exposes a temporal pathology: it makes ‘out of joint’ time audible. Crackle both invokes the past and marks out our distance from it, destroying the illusion that we are co-present with what we are hearing by reminding us we are listening to a recording. Crackle now calls up a whole disappeared regime of materiality – a tactile materiality, lost to us in an era where the sources of sound have retreated from sensory apprehension.” — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life
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“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don’t know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself.” — Slavoj Žižek, webchat, The Guardian, 2014